Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

The revolution will be supervised.

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  3. 3.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Villago Delenda Est: When EFG asked I went and checked and no one was working on a new post or had one scheduled (Mayhew’s got one scheduled for another time). So I went and started pulling vids. I hit publish and TaMara’s done her thing. So I figure I’ll go pull mine and reschedule it till tomorrow night. Hit refresh and suddenly there’s no TaMara music thread.

  6. 6.

    Pinacacci

    Oh my lord he is so young in that first one

    ETA first time I saw him was in Mrs. Brown. I have never seen him young! Thanks Adam.

  14. 14.

    scav

    @efgoldman: Just noticed ginger on the far left. Seriously. Hair color mentioned at all but not any ethnic slurs? And I agree with the not at all imaginative enough to cover the spectrum.

  18. 18.

    Major Major Major Major

    Did you folks see this? In Portlandia, they do some skits that make fun of an uber-lefty radical feminist bookstore, filmed in an actual uber-lefty radical feminist bookstore. The store’s workers recently had a change of heart about this arrangement and basically proceeded to act like the bookstore from the skits.

    In another passage, the store’s staff accuses Portlandia of essentially rolling out a red carpet of twee and whimsy “for the incoming technocrat hordes.”

    In Other Words is located in a northeast Portland district called Albina — an area that has a rich history as a home for the city’s black residents. Responding to the store’s accusation that Portlandia contributes to gentrification and depicts an overly white Portland, at least two readers took the store to task.

    “Are you serious? Your store itself is the epitome of gentrification to the actual displaced residents of NE Portland,” a reader named Xavier Woods wrote in a comment on the store’s blog post.

  24. 24.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @amk: Four vile subhuman GOP AGs brought the suit, and it was total bullshit, of course. The judge tossed it out and said “Please proceed, Mr. President.”

  26. 26.

    RaflW

    Group Apologizes for Giuliani’s ‘Unscripted’ Remarks at Awards Dinner
    By Jillian Jorgensen • 09/30/16 5:08pm

    Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was invited to a financial services trade group’s award dinner last week to speak about leadership—but instead delivered a political speech that strayed so far from that topic the group felt it necessary to apologize to its guests.

    …

    “Rudy talked about immigration and made a really, really inappropriate comment about the quote-unquote Mexicans in the kitchen at the Waldorf,” the attendee said. “It was bad. You could hear a pin drop. I think he was looking for applause.”

    A second person in attendance also recalled a remark about Mexicans coming to the country to work illegally in kitchens.

    It goes on to say his headlining gig at another trade group was cancelled soon thereafter, as well as other damning details.

    These Trump campaign surrogate a-holes are hanging around each other, egging each other on, and not getting (much) pushback on the cable blabfests, so they have no idea how far they have veered into the ditch.

    One suspects Rudy is past giving a shit. He’s gone all in, either Trump wins or they all go down. FSM (plus all of us working), make it the latter!

  28. 28.

    hilts

    @Adam L Silverman:

    It would be nice to have a humor thread posted every Friday from now until Election Day to help lighten the stress created by the thought of Trump winning this race.

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    Lalophobia

    My mother died Wednesday. She’d been having shortness of breath and had gone for a stress test just the day before she went to the emergency room, her heart stopped and she died. Dad is sort of legally her next of kin (not me or my sister) and he has always been a drama queen at his best. Now he’s actually seeming incoherent and I’m seriously doubting his sanity a little bit, especially after he tried to pressure me into getting her to a funeral home (even though there was an autopsy and organ donation to do) barely 48 hours after her death. And when my uncle told me about a cremation society (since me and my sister were leaning towards cremation) which would provide the same services but cheaper than what the funeral home would do by about 700 dollars and I told my dad not to have her sent to the home, he went into a nonsensical rant about everybody saying they’re there for you when some one dies but nobody helps (even though, as I told him, my uncle called me to check on me and gave me the information that was going to help) going on about having to sell his house and having to hire a lawyer while in the same breath telling me we were getting money from her insurance and the difference between the funeral home and cremation society’s prices would be minimal, and accused my sister and I of not having or wanting to plan when he was planning to throw my mother at the first funeral parlor that looked our way before she’d even gotten cold.

    To top it off I have always felt unsafe around people I consider to be adults (do in large part to my father’s unpredictable moods over the course of my childhood) and have always felt a need to be ‘on’ around other people. Now more than anything I wish I could stop and just grieve but it’s hard to do that when I’m alone let alone with people.

    Y’all would’ve liked my mom. Everybody did. I know that’s the kind of thing you say about someone after they die but she was selfless to her own detriment. All I wanted was to find a way to pay back all the kindness and love she gave me over the course of her life and now I won’t be able to.

    I just needed to vent. This is the first person I was (so very) close to that I’ve lost and neither me nor my sister were employed and she’s finishing school and it happened so fucking suddenly and I keep….I keep making note of funny things I hear about or saw on the internet to tell her about when she comes home, like I always do. And then I remember she’s not ever going to come home again.

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    Villago Delenda Est

    @Lalophobia: My condolences to you and your family. Losing a parent is not easy for anyone, but it is the way of things. Losing a sibling is much worse (on you, and especially on your parents). You can pay her back by keeping her in your memory and trying do do all the positive things she did, to everyone around you.

    [[[[hugs]]]]

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    lurker dean

    my mom is the kind of person everyone likes, so i know what you mean and am saddened by your loss, lalophobia. i’m sure it’s a really stressful time, i hope things will calm down and plans will come together. my condolences.

  36. 36.

    JR in WV

    @Lalophobia:

    Oh, man, I’m so sorry for your loss. When anyone looses a Mom that they loved it is like a body blow.. My Mom died in 1997, and I still expect to talk with her tomorrow!

    Don’t expect your dad to make much sense for a few days. If you can just keep him together and try to have good choices for decisions. My brother and I say down and made calls down the list of funeral homes in the yellow pages, asking how much just for a simple cremation, no ceremony, no viewing, no expensive box getting burnt.

    We got prices up to $18,000 !! but we also got a calm and experienced guy who said they do a lot of cremations, it basically $750. That included pickup of your loved one and delivery of that person to the crematory, and a plastic box to hold the cremains.

    You might want to sit down with a relative or friend and just call down the list, whether a list on your cocmputer or a phone book you dig up.

    And don’t take offense at anyone acting goofy, people don’t know how to act after a death, especially one that was unexpected.

    Hang in there!!

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    scav

    @Lalophobia: Sorry for you and everyone — but really, don’t be afraid to push back a little harder about time you need for yourself. Most people probably want to help, but just don’t know how (and they’re probably a little lost and confused too), so telling a few you could be best helped by having of privacy and silent support might be enough — they can help by serving as buffers, so everyone happy. And, if your mother was as selfless as you say, I’d imagine she’d be utterly pleased by your doing your best to take care of the other people who need it right now, and that includes yourself.

  38. 38.

    NickM

    Very strange story in the WaPo – wonder if anyone has any thoughts. Potentially a kind of forboding development.

    “A new wrinkle in the case, however, has recently emerged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., where prosecutors have suggested that Navy officials from the intelligence unit also sought to funnel military equipment to rural Hudspeth County and set up a secret training base near the Mexican border.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-a-high-profile-texas-sheriff-is-tied-to-a-rogue-navy-unit-facing-a-criminal-probe/2016/09/30/35c7d120-8585-11e6-a3ef-f35afb41797f_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_navy-755pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

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    Ruckus

    @Lalophobia:
    Sorry for your loss. RIP Mom.
    It’s difficult enough to lose a parent when it’s expected due to age or illness but a surprise throws a lot into that difficult mix. @scav: has it right, don’t forget to take care of yourself along with everyone else.
    We cremated both mom and dad, separately, as they went 12 yrs apart, buried dad with his parents and mom wanted her ashes to be scattered at sea. If money is a real concern, and it was for us at the time, both of these were relatively inexpensive.

  43. 43.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    @efgoldman: I can only think of. Mony Python skit where Michael Palin, as ThE announcer, describes why they had to cut away from a previous sketch due to content. He sets up a Chiron list of words ( with asterisks) which will get that treatment, including

    KN*CKERS
    &
    KN*CKERS

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    opiejeanne

    @Lalophobia: I’m so sorry for your loss. I lost my mom in 2003 and my sister and our dad went kind of limp and let me figure out what to do. I still miss her but it does get better. For a long time I’d go to call her to ask about something or share a joke I heard, and then I’d remember. I lost Dad 4 years ago and it’s the same way, miss him, wish I could call him up to ask him one more question about some half-remembered family story.
    It does get better.

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    satby

    @Lalophobia: Deepest condolences on the loss of your mom, Lalophobia. I’m glad you have an uncle who can help support you and your sister since your father’s grief has him being difficult. Let your uncle help and support you as much as you can, other family too. Your mom sounds like she was a wonderful person.
    I lost my mom last April, and I still think of things I want to call and tell her about. But it moved from a sad feeling to a poignant one and keeps her memory fresh for me. Some day it will for you too. Hugs.

  48. 48.

    Joel

    @EBT: Jamaican patois, “blood cloth”. Related directly to bumboclaat, which is what you wipe your ass with. You can figure out the rest.

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    RaflW

    @NickM: Just reading the Stars and Stripes repost of the WaPo article. “a rogue Navy intelligence office at the Pentagon that has been under criminal investigation for the past three years”

    Jeeeee-zus.

  51. 51.

    ChrisGrrr

    @Lalophobia: A huge part of her is home – in you and your sister’s values.

    My mom passed in ’09, before my mentally ill dad did. I sure hope the pain and weirdness from, uh, outside of your head go away soon! Been there…

    Each year I appreciate more and more how much selflessness my folks built into us, by modeling / doing.

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